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Cultuurhaven x Flowers/Ghosts&Echoes and Rengbird
An afternoon of ambience, drones and moving textures

Flowers/Ghosts&Echoes is an audio-visual trio based in The Hague, The Netherlands, consisting of two electric guitars and live visuals created with a projector and a malleable hand-held mirror. An improvising electric guitar duo consisting of Gonçalo Oliveira and James Alexandropoulos-McEwan, explores a slow-moving instrumental landscape of drones, post-rock ambience with some elements of noise music and post minimalism. Interacting with the performative visuals of Felix Bodin, using his self-designed visual instrument, consisting of projections reverberated through the performance space with the use of a malleable mirrored surface which spreads distorts or focuses digitally generated patterns into unique and dazzling light and projection shows. Sometimes delicate and beautifully serene, other times erratic, unpredictable, and exciting.

Rengbird is the solo ambient project of the Netherlands-based producer / guitarist / composer Rengert Eggink. Taking a conscious step away from the clarity and precision of digital recording technologies, Rengbird’s new release ‘Origami Mountains’ was produced on 4-track cassette recorder during his recent travels, which included an extended trip to his birth-country of South Africa. Aided by the use of a few effects pedals, the warmth of the tape medium with its gentle hissing textures, creates an inviting world of kaleidoscopic sound-tapestries, featuring gentle droning textures, glitchy ambience, mellow loops, and traces of subtle melodic elements.